problems and 80% of people have trouble sleeping at some stage in their lives.
How To Sleep Better? With Understanding the need for sleep....
Why is sleep so important?
Obviously you think sleep is important or you would not have started reading this article. There is a good chance you got this guide because you are tired, but sleep is not just important because it dispels tiredness. Sleep is important for many other reasons as well - being one of the cornerstones of health and well being. Unfortunately this has not been widely acknowledged and consequently many people have suffered for too long with little guidance or help to overcome their problem.
ln the last few decades there has been an explosion of interest in diet and nutrition, as well as in activity and exercise. The benefits of healthy eating and regular activity are well recognized and widely accepted, not just by medical and health professionals, but also by the general community This has been a fantastic advancement and a significant achievement for public health campaigners.
However, although many medical specialists and academics have tried to emphasize the importance of sleep,
they have not had the same success in reaching the public. lt is not widely known, for example, that good sleep is one of the most important components of healthy living. Not only has sleep missed out on the attention that nutrition and exercise have received, in some instances it has actually attracted negative publicity Why does sleep have a bad reputation? People who eat well and ensure they have a balanced diet are respected for looking after their health.
People who exercise regularly are admired for doing what we all know we should do (but often dont}. But people who devote time to ensuring they achieve a good quality and quantity of sleep tend to be considered lazy!
In the 1980s and 1990s adequate sleep was discounted by many of the high - flyers as being unnecessary. A number of famous people were quoted as saying that they only needed a few hours of sleep each night. They often stated that sleep was a waste of time and that they would rather spend their time working and achieving success.
Well, that approach is fine if you can cope with only a few hours sleep each night. And some people can. A small percentage of people are able to get by with no ill effects on people are then able to use their extra waking time to work hard and achieve more. More’s their luck!
But these people are definitely in the minority For most people, three to four hours sleep each night is simply not sufficient and would cause sleep deprivation. (Seven to eight hours is the normal requirement,) Rather than freeing up more time to work, four hours sleep would produce tiredness and a range of symptoms that ultimately would affect the ability to concentrate and process information. Rather than allowing more time to achieve and succeed, it would cause most of us to struggle with the basics and barely be able to tie our shoelaces!
The Good Sleep Guide, therefore, is not about how to cope with minimal sleep or about how to achieve as much as possible while sleeping as little as possible. Rather, it is about helping you to get an appropriate and healthy amount of sleep, and a better quality sleep. ln order to do this l believe it is important to make sleep more attractive—to make sleep "sexy!" Rather than shunning sleep, I argue that we should value it. Rather than trying to minimize sleep, we should recognize its restorative benefits and enjoy the beauty and tranquillity of restful slumber. As well as being a practical guide to help people to sleep better, The Good Sleep Guide aims to promote the significant benefits of sleep for individuals, relationships, work performance and productivity as well as for society
The Good Sleep Guide can help you
I think I am probably safe in assuming that anyone reading this guide has experienced (or more likely is experiencing) disturbed sleep. Sleep problems are extremely common. For some people the problem is trouble getting to sleep, whereas for those who fall asleep without difficulty their problem involves waking frequently through the night. For the lucky ones, a few bad nights is quickly followed by a return to their more typical pattern of restful slumber. For the not-so-lucky ones, those few bad nights can extend torturously into long and frustrating weeks, which in some cases then extend into depressing and disruptive years.
If this is your situation, do not despair. Achieving good sleep is possible. Even for those of you who might have had trouble sleeping for months or years, there is certainly hope. ln fact, there is more than hope—there is an answer. Most sleep problems are very treatable. You do not need to go on suffering, You can achieve restful and peaceful sleep, just like many of your friends and family whom you currently envy With good sleep comes improved mood and the energy and the ability to enjoy life more. Remember what it was like when you weren`t so exhausted, tired and irritable?
Well, you can be like that again—bright, happy and much more able to cope with lifes stresses, as well as better able to enjoy lifes bountiful opportunities. just read on.
Who else is not sleeping?
Sleep problems are as common as the common cold! Sleep problems affect almost everyone. Although not directly life-threatening, sleep problems ean be extremely distressing and problematic. They are one of the hidden problems of our society and are also associated with an increased risk of illness.
Epidemiological research (the study of health and illness in large populations and communities) indicates that up to 80% of people have trouble sleeping at some stage in their lives. A large survey in the USA recently found that 58% ol` respondents reported some syrnptoms of insomnia.
There is also good evidence to suggest that at least 20% to 30% of the population at large have significant, chronic (that is, longstanding) sleep problems. Think about those numbers: 80% of people, or eight out of every ten, have trouble sleeping at some stage in their lives.
What these figures mean is that almost one-third of the people in your office are more tired than they need to be because of some senous sleep-related problem. One-third of the people in your Street and in your neighborhood are tired and not getting enough sleep, One-third of the people on your bus or train are not sleeping well (you probably know the ones—those people whose heads nod forward and then jerk upward suddenly as they realize they are dozing off and are about to fall from their seats). More.... jump read here The Good Sleep Guide: 10 Steps to Better Sleep and How to Break the Worry Cycle
To find way of to get sleep better you should understanding the mechanism of sleep, what happened and what you need for. Because lack of sleep can effect your brain and it could be turn into insomnia ( you can read here : Insomnia causes ).
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